He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist ( 2001 ).

In the chapter on climate change in his 2001 book A Skeptical Environmentalist he states ; " This chapter accepts the reality of man-made global warming but questions the way in which future scenarios have been arrived at and finds that forecasts of climate change of 6 degrees by the end of the century are not plausible.

His most famous book in this area is The Skeptical Environmentalist, whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001.

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* Bjørn Lomborg: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World.

* Kåre Fog's " Lomborg errors " website contains a catalogue of claims of errors in Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist, Fog's opinion on Lomborg and his career.

* Skeptical About The Skeptical Environmentalist, Richard M. Fisher's review of The Skeptical Environmentalist, in " The Skeptical Inquirer ".

The popularity of the term was enhanced by Bjørn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

* Lomborg, Bjørn, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN 0-521-01068-3

In its January 2002 issue, Scientific American published a series of criticisms of the Bjorn Lomborg book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

" Journalist Ronald Bailey called the criticism " disturbing " and " dishonest ", writing, " The subhead of the review section, ' Science defends itself against The Skeptical Environmentalist, gives the show away: Religious and political views need to defend themselves against criticism, but science is supposed to be a process for determining the facts.

Ehrlich has also been criticized by Bjørn Lomborg in his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist.

With Stephen Schneider and two other authors, writing in the January 2002 issue of Scientific American, he critiqued Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist.

The EAI was seen by some as a vehicle created for Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist argues that many perceived environmental problems are vastly exaggerated by environmental lobby and that policy responses based on such exaggerated claims are often misguided.

Easterbrook published a 1995 book A Moment on the Earth, subtitled " the coming age of environmental optimism ," presaged Bjørn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist, first published in Danish three years later, and argued that many environmental indicators, with the notable exception of greenhouse gas production, are positive.

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Previously obscure, the DCSD became embroiled in controversy after its January 2003 decision that the 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg was " clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice ", due to the author's systematically biased choice of data, and objectively was scientifically irredeemable, but Lomborg himself could not be subjectively convicted of intentional or gross negligence.

Organizations that encourage a critical examination of parapsychology and parapsychological research include the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer ; the James Randi Educational Foundation, founded by illusionist and skeptic James Randi, and the

Skeptical scholars have questioned the historicity of the resurrection story for centuries ; for example, " nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century biblical scholarship dismissed resurrection narratives as late, legendary accounts.

Skeptical hypotheses in philosophy suggest that reality is very different from what we think it is ; or at least that we cannot prove it is not.

Edmond de Goncourt modeled his acrobat-mimes in his The Zemganno Brothers ( 1879 ) upon them ; J .- K. Huysmans ( whose Against Nature would become Dorian Gray's bible ) and his friend Léon Hennique wrote their pantomime Skeptical Pierrot ( 1881 ) after seeing them perform at the Folies Bergère.

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Books VII-XI of Against the Mathematicians form an incomplete whole ; scholars believe that at least one, but possibly as many as five books, are missing from the beginning of the work that was originally entitled Skeptical Treatises ( Skeptika Hupomnēmata ).

" This improvement of protocols later led James Randi to list a " straight spoon " award to Phillips in a press release of his " bent spoon " awards, but that award was omitted from the list of awards published by Omni magazine and the Skeptical Inquirer ; it was reported in the latter in a subsequent letter to the editor.

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Skeptical males said she would be lucky to get three applicants ; actually she had 151 the first year ( 1918 ), and had to turn many away ever since.

* La Légende Sceptique ( 1889 ) translated as The Skeptical ; Legend included in The Navigators of Space, 2010, q. v.

* Post, Truman M. The Skeptical Era in Modern History ; Or, The Infidelity of the Eighteenth Century, the Product of Spiritual Despotism.

; Skeptical: a formula is entailed by a default theory if it is entailed by all its extensions ;

In Skeptical Inquirer's Naked Skeptic column by Karen Stollznow she discusses RMPRS's investigation of The Stanley Hotel, " During the investigation, The Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society researched popular beliefs and claims ; they solved some mysteries, they performed valuable outreach, and they maintained the historical integrity of the Stanley Hotel.

Skeptical civilians and journalists are told that multinational Communism is what the U. S. will be fighting in Vietnam ; proof: weapons and equipment, captured from North Vietnamese soldiers and Viet Cong guerrillas, originating in the Soviet Union, Communist Czechoslovakia, and Communist China.

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He also joined an American sceptical society ; CSICOP ( now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) and investigated / debunked several such claims.

* Loretto Chapel Staircase ; Investigative Files, Skeptical Inquirer November 1998

This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).

The Skeptical School of early Chinese history, started by Gu Jiegang in the 1920s, was the first group of scholars within China to seriously question the traditional story of its early history: " the later the time, the longer the legendary period of earlier history ... early Chinese history is a tale told and retold for generations, during which new elements were added to the front end ".

Skeptical at first, Staubach told Smith to spend some time at his company's offices during the spring and summer if he was sincere.

Following a no-confidence vote against Truzzi, he resigned, and the magazine was ( starting with volume 2, issue 2 ) retitled Skeptical Inquirer and Kendrick Frazier ( former editor of Science News ) became the new editor.

He was a co-founder of the Committee on Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) and contributed articles to their journal, The Skeptical Inquirer.

Skeptical archaeologists see the electrical experiments as embodying a key problem with experimental archaeology, saying that such experiments can only show that something was physically possible, but do not confirm that it actually occurred.

The council was founded by Dr. Paul Kurtz, who also founded CSICOP ( now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) and the Center for Inquiry.

The Skeptical Inquirer revealed that Shaw was a fake psychic in their fall 1980 issue.

In February 2011 he was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

One column, " Skeptical Eye ," attempted to uncover various scams and flim-flam in the popular science world, and was the medium for James Randi to release his Project Alpha results.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have put forward the suggestion that the initial identification as a Bigfoot cast is problematic, as it was done by a Bigfoot researcher looking for evidence of Bigfoot, while his fellows only concurred after this identification was suggested to them and thereby validating the original identification.

In February 2011 Grossman was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

The Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society ( SAPS ) was founded with the intent to recreate and debunk segments of the show.

Kendrick Frazier became the editor of CSICOP's journal and the name was changed to Skeptical Inquirer.

In January 2010 Carroll was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry